Buggy attachment.



No. 898,889. K ,PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908. G. ROSE 88 M. HAWLEY.

BUGGY' ATTACHMENT.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 2,1907.

wi h1 nous UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GRAHAM ROSE AND MATCHEITE HAWLEY, OF BOURBON, INDIANA.

BUGGY ATTACHJVIENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GRAHAM Rosie and MATCHETTE HAWLEY, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Bourbon, in the county of Marshall and Stateof Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in BuggyAttachments, of which the following is a speciiication.

Our invention pertains to buggy boots, and more particularly toattachments for holding buggy boots against-casual movement when thesame are closed and also when they are open; and it consists in thesimple, efficient and easily applied attachment hereinafter describedand denitely claimed.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification:Figure 1 is a view of a buggy body equipped with our improvements andillustrating the latter as retaining the boot in its open position. Fig.2 is a similar view showing our improvements as retaining the boot inits closed position. Fig. 3 is a broken plan view showing our novelattachment on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a broken view, partly in sideelevation and partly in section, of the attachment.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views ofthedrawings, referring to which:

A is a buggy body having a boot B which is of the ordinary well knownconstruction, and C is our novel attachment as a whole.

As best shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the attachment C consists essentially ofa U-shaped bracket a, a vertically swinging U-shaped piece b havingtrunnion's c at its ends jour-- naled in the arms of the bracketadjacent to the outer ends of said arms, a rod d fixed to or formedintegral with the middle of the swinging U-shaped piece b and extendinglongitudinally therefrom, a rear tubular section e which is provided atits rear end with an apertured plate f for connection to the boot andwhich receives the rod d in order to enable the attachment toaccommodate itself to the up and down movements of the boot, a clevis gwhich straddles the inner end of the rod d and is provided at its endswith eyes h loosely receiving the cross-bar of the piece I), a tractilespring t connected at its outer end to the clevis g, and a ring j,connecting the inner end of the spring fi, and the cross-bar of thebracket (L. rIhe mentioned cross-bar of the bracket a is provided withapertures 7c, and hence it will be apparent Specification of Letters IPatent.

Application filed August 2, 1907.

Patented Aug. 18, 1908.

Serial No. 386,687.

that the bracket is adapted to be arranged directly under and directlyconnected to the underside of the seat of the body A.

In practice, the bracket a is positioned under and screwed to theunderside of the seat of the body, and the plate f is attached to theinner side of the boot B at a point adjacent to the rear or swinging endthereof. With the attachment thus arranged ,relative to the body A andthe boot B, it will be readily understood that when the boot is raisedas shown in Fig. 1 to permit of articles being placed in or removed fromthe rear portion of the body A, the spring i will operate to retain theboot in said position, and in that way contribute to the facility withwhich the rear portion of the body A may be loaded and unloaded. vItwill also be readily understood that when the boot B is swung down toits closed position, the connection of the spring i to the clevis g willhave been carried past the center of movement of the swinging piece b,whereupon the said spring t by tending to contract will serve to preventcasual upward movement of the boot B and in that way preclude the lossof articles from the rear portion of the body A.

By reference to Figs. 3 and 4 it will be apparent that the clevis`g andring j enable the spring t to accommodate itself freely to the movementsof the swinging piece b and the rod d, and in consequence the spring isenabled to serve the purposes ascribed to it without liability ofbinding or becoming disarranged. It will also be noted by reference toFigs. 3 and 4 that our attachment is at once inexpensive, simple andcompact, and is adapted to be expeditiously and easily connected to abuggy body and to a boot without the necessity of skilled labor beingemployed, and it will further be observed that the attachment as a wholeis strong and durable and well adapted to withstand the rough usage towhich buggy attachments are ordinarily subjected.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire. to secure byLetters-Patattachment consisting essentially of a U- shaped brackethaving an apertured crossbar at its top arranged directly against anddirectly connected to the under side of the seat and also having armsdepending from said cross-bar and disposed at right angles to said seat,which arms are provided with transverse apertures, aU-shaped-,vertically swinging piece having outwardly extending trunnionsdisposed in the said transverse apertures of the bracket arm, wherebysaid swinging piece is connected of itseli1 to the bracket, a rod fixedwith respect to and eX- tending rearwardly at a right angle from themiddle of the bight of the swinging piece, a tubular sectionlooselyreceiving and eX- tending rearwardly from said rod and directlyconnected to the boot, a U-shaped clevis straddling the rod andpivotally conseeze nected to the bight of the swinging piece and adaptedto swing on said bight, a ring connected to the cross-bar at the top ofthe bracket and disposed at a right angle to said bar, and a coiledspring having a hook at one end connected. to said clevis and a hook atits opposite end connected to said ring.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

GRAHAM ROSE. MATCHETTE HAWLEY. Witnesses:

CHARLES C. VINK, FERD F. FRIBLEY.

